robotic adj.

of the nature of a robot; of or relating to robots; (also) that is a robot; automated

Robotics

  • 1927 Daily Olympian (Washington) 10 Nov. 2/2

    LA COSTE INVENTS ROBOTIC OPPONENT…. In preparing for his defeat of ‘Big Bill’ Tilden last August, Rene La Coste had a mechanical accomplice, a unique machine of his own invention…. This tennis robot can be operated by turning a handle or by the use of an electric motor.

  • 1941 I. Asimov Liar! in Astounding Science-Fiction May 50 page image Isaac Asimov bibliography

    You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy.

  • 1948 ‘C. Recour’ Robot Factories in Amazing Stories May 109/2 page image Henry Bott bibliography

    Everything from a screw to an airplane may eventually be built in a man[-]less completely robotic factory!

  • 1957 B. Walton Security in Worlds of If Dec. 95/2 page image Bryce Walton bibliography

    Lewis went to the robotic barkeep and started drinking.

  • 1963 New Worlds Science Fiction Apr. 52

    Johnston wouldn’t have been…surprised to find out that more than half of the city’s population was robotic, no matter how cleverly they were disguised.

  • 1981 B. B. Longyear House of If in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 13 Apr. 134 page image Barry B. Longyear bibliography

    The gates opened; the robotic guard with which I had exchanged psychotronic images sped out.

  • 1992 I. Lee No Sense of Humour in Interzone (#61) July 38/1 page image Ian Lee bibliography

    Dave Human is a robot of uncommon mettle. Unfortunately, he does not have long to live…. He knows that demise is part of the robotic (as of the human) condition and that at some point it is bound to become impending. He is prepared for this moment.

  • 2014 E. L. Davin Icarus at Noon in Year’s Best Military SF & Space Opera (2015) 179 page image Eric Leif Davin bibliography

    Based on Icarus, its orbit would never decay, as had so many other robotic solar observer spacecraft, plunging them into the Sun.

Research requirements

antedating 1927
Research History
Fred Shapiro submitted a 1927 cite from a Washington (state) newspaper.

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